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• Bernardus Maria Leijendekker, Amsterdam († 2004)
• Berendina Johanna ter Horst, Rheezerveen († 1926)
• Alida Van Varenberg († 2004)
• Ab Hupkens, Heemstede († 2016)
• Albert Brongers, Emmer-Compascuum, Emmen († 1929)
• Audrey M. Dickensheets, Quincy, Branch Co., MI († 1983)
• Anna Maria (Annie) Zoet († 2012)
• Anna Vos († 2010)
• Baby Blevans, Pennsylvania († 1926)
• (Virgenie) Maria Wilhelmina Virgenie Meertens († 2009)

• Adriana Johanna Blokland (71), Utrecht,Gemeente Utrecht,Utrecht,Netherlands
• Arnoldus van den Heuvel (81), Uden
• Berend van EGTEN (67), Ruinen, De Wolden, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna Blokland (71), Utrecht
• Barfield Lamar Singletary (49)
• Amelis Jan Jalink (72), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Schlahmilch (76), 's Gravenhage
• Cornelis Lieftink (82), Gemeente Ede, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Albertus Knijnenburg (32), Wassenaar
• Barbara Ellen McBride LARR (85), Rushville, Sheridan County, Nebraska, United States

• 1923 » Siobhán McKenna, Irish actress († 1986)
• 1924 » Philip Pearlstein, American soldier and painter
• 1925 » Carmine Infantino, American illustrator and educator († 2013)
• 1925 » Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and director († 1994)
• 1926 » Stanley Baxter, Scottish actor and screenwriter
• 1928 » William Trevor, Irish novelist, playwright and short story writer († 2016)
• 1932 » Arnold Wesker, English playwright and producer († 2016)
• 1933 » Aharon Lichtenstein, French-Israeli rabbi and author († 2015)
• 1933 » Jane Byrne, American lawyer and politician, 50th Mayor of Chicago († 2014)
• 1933 » Réal Giguère, Canadian television host and actor

• 1901 » Louis-Zéphirin Moreau, Canadian bishop (b. 1824)
• 1908 » Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer and architect (b. 1821)
• 1915 » John Condon, Irish-English soldier (b. 1896)
• 1919 » Amado Nervo, Mexican poet, journalist, and educator (b. 1870)
• 1929 » Nikolai von Meck, Russian engineer (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Lancelot Holland, English admiral (b. 1887)
• 1945 » Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1948 » Jacques Feyder, Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1885)
• 1949 » Alexey Shchusev, Russian architect, designed Lenin's Mausoleum and Moscow Kazanskaya railway station (b. 1873)
• 1950 » Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English field marshal and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (b. 1883)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
• March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
• April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
• May 12 » The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
• August 5 » Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
• November 25 » The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.
• December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.

The temperature on May 24, 1926 was between 3.9 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.